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by yobbo 7mo ago
Or, are you using Gooby because debugging in the other language is painful and fraught? Whereas Gooby "just works" once it compiles? "Fun" for programmers means satisfaction and achievement in my experience.
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by yobbo 7mo ago
Didn't an existing class hierarchy (at least in part) enable the Normans to do this? When the aristocratic army was defeated, the entire country was defenceless and they could replace the existing aristocracy.
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by yobbo 7mo ago
Usually by giving away free money to reach critical mass.
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by yobbo 8mo ago
The code might be a little verbose which is tiresome for humans to read and follow. Structure and functions look idiomatic. It seems to be using xml parser idioms which makes it readable. It could be doing double checks in both tokeniser an
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by yobbo 8mo ago
Also knowing (archaic?) Scandinavian helps a little more. "swa" is like a contraction of german "so wie". sindon is probably like german "sind": is/were. soþ - sweet? gefeohte - past-tense born/nurtur
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by yobbo 8mo ago
If you suggest bad reasoning, do you think they would actually walk to the car wash and then be surprised the car wasn't there? Or by reasoning, do you mean something else?
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by yobbo 8mo ago
Yes, but a complete hardware mirror is only 2x the original cap. investment. If bandwidth allows, you could even have local mirror in your office.
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by yobbo 8mo ago
He's not hired to code. He has taste for "what works" in these types of things. They want him to apply that taste - maybe making new services or fixing old.
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by yobbo 8mo ago
> it costs almost nothing to build an app, it costs almost nothing to clone an app. For the types of apps that AI can clone on its own, this has always been true. It's the eternal bookstore example, recipe collection, or my-dvd-coll
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by yobbo 8mo ago
Watermark files per unique user and go after whoever leaks them.
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by yobbo 8mo ago
I think a latent embedding is almost equivalent to the article's hypernetwork, which I assume as y = (Wh + c)v + b, where h is a dataset-specific trainable vector. (The article uses multiple layers ...)
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by yobbo 8mo ago
Hard-to-fire typically means only specific and provable reasons are valid. "Shrinking the org" is a valid reason.
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by yobbo 8mo ago
On page 41 you can find average, median, and top10 salaries for Germany by experience levels. Junior/regular/senior medians are 52.5k/60k/67.5k. Average is 62.4k.
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by yobbo 8mo ago
> because EU throws regulatory obstacles at every step. No, the gatekeeping is done by local banks and governments to protect their oligopolies/cartels. There are many instant-pay apps across Europe and they are intentionally not in
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by yobbo 8mo ago
Agile solves the problem of discovering a workable set of requirements while the environment is changing. If you already know the requirements, it doesn't need to come into play.
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by yobbo 8mo ago
They mean google docs/gmail or office365.
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by yobbo 9mo ago
Email-marketing tools present these numbers as if they were ground truth. Arguing with non-tech users means you are challenging the legitimacy of their tool, and they typically can't let go of faith in the tool. It's like Trueman
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by yobbo 9mo ago
"Law of Jante" (jantelagen) is a double edged sword and can work in favour of innovation. In good cases, it means both subordinates and bosses intuitively understand that titles are theatre, and anyone can present new ideas and ch
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by yobbo 9mo ago
> bureaucracy and stagnation while the same staff ends up flourishing and producing top notch tech when under a US company like Apple Apple orders a widget from them which can be sold in an established product with existing customers. Th
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by yobbo 9mo ago
You are assuming there is meaningful work for them in the federal government. There might be more productive work for them in industry. Their contribution to the workforce could put pressure on inflated salaries, if that is the case. If the
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by yobbo 9mo ago
This is part of the answer. I have a theory about the second part; European consumers have an even more suspicious view of "corporate overlords" if they are domestic/European than if they are American. Not because Americans a
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by yobbo 9mo ago
"Work" might require a transaction which reads with lock, computes, (launch missiles), and then updates.
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by yobbo 9mo ago
As long as these sorts of papers serve more important purposes for the careers of the authors than anything related to science or discovery of knowledge, then of course this happens and continues. The best possible outcome is that these two
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by yobbo 9mo ago
> We treat every new project like a piece of bespoke furniture, meticulously hand-carving the same legs, joints, and frames that have been built a million times before. No, we don't. The scale of his own code contributions relative
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by yobbo 9mo ago
The bank account analogy (or "social capital") ignores distinctions between spending and investing, and how these depend on culture. If you are simply the wrong person in a "toxic" culture, there is no action that can in
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by yobbo 9mo ago
> In that time, I internalized a simple truth: ideas are cheap, execution is everything. This has never been true. To believe this, you would have had to miss the number of functioning apps and games on all the app stores that no one car
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by yobbo 9mo ago
In C, one can build data structures with pointers that would require reference counting and heap allocation in Rust. The performance would also depend on what kind of CPU/features it is compiled for. Whether one should do it is a dif
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by yobbo 9mo ago
> How would we measure the effects of AI coding tool taking over manual coding ? Falling salaries?
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by yobbo 9mo ago
This looks more worrying than impressive. It's long files of code with if-statements and flag-checking unicode bit patterns, with an enormous number of potential test-cases. It's not conceptually challenging to understand, but tim
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by yobbo 9mo ago
Yes, they are basically the same thing, but for correlation the values are first zero-centred.

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